On 27 July 1914, Laszlo Count Szogyeny, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Germany (pictured), sent a coded private telegram to Leopold Count Berchtold, the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs. In his telegram, Szogyeny asks Berchtold to send the Serbian answer to Austri-Hungary’s ultimatum to Berlin.

Laszlo Count Szogyeny

Count Szogyeny to Count Berchtold. Berlin, 27 July 1914.

Cyphered.—Private.

Serbia.

[The German Ambassador to Austria-Hungary,] Herr von Tschirschky has received telegraphic instructions to request your Excellency communicate the text of the Serbian Note answering our démarche in Belgrade [i.e. the Serbian answer to the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum] at the earliest opportunity.

The [German] Minister of Foreign Affairs [von Jagow] told me that this was all the more desirable, as we wished to convince England, when it asserts, that the Serbian answer complied with the chief points of our wishes.